Charles f



(No Model.) G. F. KUECHLER.

LAMP POST SIGN.

No. 479,006 Patented July 19,1392.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

CHARLES F. KUECHLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK RAI IN, OF SAME PLACE.

LAM P-POST SIG N.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 479,006, dated July 19, 1892.

Application filed December 11, 1890. Serial No. 374.275. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: height of the usual street gas-lamp a chamber Be it known that I, CHARLES F. KUEOHLER, having transparent sides facing in four dia citizen of the United States, residing at Chirections, and upon one or more of these transcago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, parent side walls or upon a suitable slide se- 5 5 have invented certain new and useful Imcured to it I mark the name of a street or the provements in Lamp-Post Signs, of which the number of the house adjoining which the following is a specification. lamp is placed, or other information for the There has lately come into use in the lightguidance of the public or for matter of ading of cities a post or support for are electric vertisement. In order to illuminate this cham- IO lamps, which post is usually of about twice her, an incandescent electric lamp is placed the height of the ordinary gas-lamp post. In therein, current for which is supplied by a order to mark these posts with the names of connection from the lamp-wires. the streets on which or at the intersection of In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is which they are placed, sign-boards have been a side elevation of a lamp-post of the charac- I 5 affixed to the posts at about their mid-height, ter described. Fig. 2 is a plan view below the said sign-boards having painted or otherwise line 2 2 of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a broken perindicated thereon the names of the streets; 'spective view. but the base of the lamp and the top of the The post A in the preferred form will be post above the sign-board cast a shadow upon cast hollow and an electric fire-alarm may be 20 the post itself, and therefore the sign-board placed therein, as indicated at B. Ata point secured thereon is within the shadow so cast a little above the mid-height this post, as and the names of the streets are not readily shown, is enlarged to form a chamber C, the discernible. This difficulty was not encounwalls of which are made of some transparent tered in the use of the ordinary gas lamp, material, such as glass, and which glass may 2 5 wherein the names of the streets have combe inclosed within the frames D, secured over monly been indicated upon transparent slides the openings in the sides of the chamber. One placed in the case of the lamp, so that the of the frames is hinged, as at d, to permit acrays of light showing through the transparent cess to the interior of the chamber for placing slides illuminated the letters and made them the lamp or cleaning the walls. On the glass o readily discernible toaperson standing upon may be painted or otherwise marked the the street. It is obviously impracticable to names of the streets, as clearly indicated in surround an electric lamp with a case to which Fig. 1 of the drawings, and above and below the name of the street can readily be applied, the street-name may, if desired, be placed adand therefore resort has been made to the use vertising matter or the number of the house 3 5 of the sign-boards secured upon the posts, as adjoining which the lamp is placed, or any above described. In the most approved form other information which it may be desired to of these high lamp -posts, and particularly convey to the public. Through the hollow of those used for are electric lights, the post it the post will be carried the usual lamp-wires self is cast hollow and is provided toward its E E for supplying current to an electric lamp 0 40 base, in some instances, with an electric fire which will be sustained beneath the hood G alarm. j The hollow of the post affords means at the top of the post. \Vitbin the chamber for conducting to the lamp the wires over Will be placed the incandescent electric lamp which the electric current is passed. H, which need only be of very low power, as

My invention has for its object to provide a small amount of illumination will make the 9 5 45 lamp-posts of the character above described signs indicated on the transparent wall of the with an illuminated chamber at a convenient chamber easily discernible, and the lamp will height above the ground and upon the walls of course be lighted when the current is turned of said chamber to indicate the names of the on the main lamp-wires. The transparent streets, and in the accompanying drawings I section of the walls of the chamber may vary 10o 50 have shown and will hereinafter describe a in size and the post may be cast with a narlamp-post having at a point therein about the row slot only in the walls of the chamber, as

shown in Fig. 3, Within which slot a glass slide havingtho sign matter thereon maybe slipped. Such a construction is shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

5 I claim- In combination with a lamp-post bearing at the top thereof an electric lamp for streetlighting and a chamber below the lamp, said chamber having one or more transparent walls or Wall-sections adapted to receive and sup- 10 port signs, lamp-Wires for supplying the lamp with an electric current, and a lamp within the chamber and included in the lamp-circuit, substantially as described.

CHARLES F. KUECHLER. \Vitnesses:

C. O. LINTHICUM, FREDERICK O. GOODWIN. 

